Posted on 10/05/2015 10:45:32 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
President Barack Obama’s recent trip to Alaska helped draw attention to global climate change — and to the national-security tensions that could result from a warming Arctic region.
Surveyors believe that the seabed under Arctic waters could contain hundreds of billions of barrels of untapped oil. As the North Pole becomes more accessible, and so more valuable, Arctic countries — each with its own and in some cases overlapping territorial claims — are getting ready for some serious competition.
The United States and Russia are geopolitical rivals and uneasy Arctic neighbors. More and more Russian and U.S. military forces are deploying on and under the Arctic Ocean.
But Washington and Moscow are approaching their Arctic build-ups quite differently. The Kremlin holds the advantage on the ocean’s surface; the Pentagon dominates beneath the waves. Though Russia and the United States both train Arctic ground troops, Washington is also building a northern strike force of high-tech stealth warplanes.
These different approaches are the results of military policies and priorities going back decades. Moscow chose to invest in icebreakers to work along its vast Arctic frontier, while Washington spent its money on submarines and warplanes that are equally useful outside the polar regions.
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LOL< since before WWII.
Who knew?
BS, pure BS. The feckless one has no idea what is going on, does not care, has no idea how to react, and frankly does not give a damn. A clown only wants his next meal.
Obama's giveaway: Oil-rich islands to Russia www.wnd.com/.../obamas-giveaway-oil-rich-islands-to-ru... WorldNetDaily
Feb 16, 2012 - Obama's State Department is giving away seven strategic, ... The seven endangered islands in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea include one ... Alaskan Island Giveaway? - FactCheck.org www.factcheck.org/2012/03/alaskan-island-giveaway/ FactCheck.org
Mar 27, 2012 - Obama Giveaway – Oil Rich Islands of Alaska to Russia. ... Obama's State Department is GIVING away seven (7) strategic resource laden .... (The Bush administration's official Arctic Region Policy stated that the U.S. would ... Obama's giveaway: 7 Alaska Islands to Russia ... July 7, 2013 6:03 pm ... Wrangle lies in the Arctic Ocean, close to Alaska, but closer to Russia. .... from this story is that a Secretary of State can engineer giving away sovereign land with no input ...
Didn’t Bammy give Russia some Arctic islands?
Not that stupid crap again. Those are the same island they claimed Bush gave away, that were never part of the US in the first place.
Quietly, State Dept. Turns Over American Islands to Russia, Others
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/927764/posts
May 8, 2000
You have made the islands claim before and been corrected on Free Republic. Will you stop making this false claim?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3238010/replies?c=10
We don't need it, we have "renewable energy" like windmills and solar to power all the needs of our country...!!!
See how smart Obama is !!!
He's making Putin spend money and resources for evil oil...
Ok...taking libtard hat off...
Ice Station Bozo.
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